Fall 2016
UPDATED 25 August 2016
(Check https://www.reed.edu/registrar/registration_info.html
for updates to this list)
Prior to registration, advisers will be notified of placement exam results in economics, languages, and music.
Courses numbered 300-499 will be especially challenging for a first-year student.
Visual Concepts (9 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2 sections)
Intro History of Art (5 spaces are reserved
ART 161
ART 201
MUS 105**
MUS 107**
MUS 108**
Reed Chorus
Collegium Musicum (audition required)
Jazz Ensemble (audition required)
BIOL 101
CHEM 101
CHIN 110
DANC 101 for new students in each of two sections)
Topics in Biology I
Molecular Structure & Properties
First-year Chinese (year course)
Dance Technique (variable topics)
Intro Dance: Studio I (10 spaces are reserved for new students)
MUS 109** Chamber Music (audition required)
** To qualify for .5 unit credit, students must be enrolled in a oneunit music course numbered 111 or above.
MUS 111 Theory I
DANC 111 MUS 150
MUS 221
The Cultural Study of Music
Music History I
DANC 201
DANC 211
Intro Dance: History & Culture (10 spaces are reserved for new students)
Contemporary Dance I: (Previous dance training recommended) (6 spaces are reserved for new students)
Dancing Latin/x America
Dances of Bali, Indonesia
Intro Economic Analysis (12 spaces are
MUS 230
PHIL 201
PHIL 203
Tango: Music, Culture, History
Logic (8 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2 sections)
Intro to Ethics (8 spaces are reserved for new
DANC 241
DANC 260
ECON 201
PHYS 101
POL 230 students in each of 2 sections)
General Physics I (corequisite MATH 111)
Intro to Political Theory (16 spaces are
FREN 110
GER 110
GRK 110 reserved for new students in each of 4 sections)
First-year French (year course)
First-year German (year course)
First-year Greek (year course)
Native Peoples in the 20th Century American
West
Ancient Mediterranean (year course)
POL 240
POL 260 reserved for new students )
Intro to International Relations (8 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2 sections)
Intro to American Politics and Public Policy
HIST 261
HUM 110
POL 403
PSY 121
(16 spaces are reserved for new students)
Hegel and Marx
Intro to Psychology I
LAT 110
LING 296
LITG 330
First-year Latin (year course)
Psych of Language Acquisition (cross-listed as
PSY 296)
Gender and Sexuality in German Literature
(cross-listed as GER 330)
German Aesthetic Theory (cross-listed as GER
347)
Holocaust in Film & Literature (cross-listed as
PSY 240
PSY 296
REL 121
Gender and Sexuality
Psychology of Language Acquisition (crosslisted as LING 296)
The Rise and Formation of Islam (5 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2
LITG 347
LITG 358
LITR 373
LITR 382
GER 347)
Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present (cross-listed as RUSS 373)
Russian Auteur Cinema (cross-listed as RUSS
382)
Russian Romanticism in the Western European
Context (cross-listed as RUSS 383)
REL 151
RUSS 120
SPAN 110
THEA 160
THEA 161 sections)
Intro to Judaism (4 spaces are reserved for new students)
First-year Russian (year course)
First-year Spanish (year course)
Applied Collaboration Techniques (Instructor permission required)
Applied Performance Techniques (Instructor
LITR 383
MATH 111
MATH 113
MATH 121
MATH 141
MUS 101**
MUS 104**
Calculus
Discrete Structures
Computer Science Fundamentals I (21 spaces are reserved for new students)
Intro Probability & Statistics
Private Instruction
Reed Orchestra (audition required)
THEA 162
THEA 163
THEA 201
THEA 202
THEA 210
THEA 240 permission required)
Applied Theatre Production (Instructor permission required)
Applied Theatre Design (Instructor permission required)
Stagecraft
Intro to Theatre Design
Acting Laboratory
Race & Identity in American Theatre
The following departments generally do not allow first-year students in their courses: anthropology (except
201), English, linguistics, sociology.
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY ARABIC: This year Reed students may study Arabic language at
Lewis and Clark College (Mon/Wed/Fri 11:30-12:30pm). This course is available at no cost to the student and transportation is provided. Space is limited. Inquire with Prof. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri for more information.
Register for the course with Ben Bradley, Recorder (Eliot 311).

Courses without college prerequisites or with prerequisites that can be met in Fall 2016
Spring 2017
(See fall for year courses. Fall prerequisite course/s are listed below in parentheses.) n.b. Courses numbered 300-499 will be especially challenging for a first-year student, even if there are no prerequisites.
ANTH 201 Language, Culture, Power (12 spaces are MATH 382 Algorithms and Data Structures (Course in
ART 161
ART 201
ART 262
ART 265
ART 296
ART 310
ART 320
ART 355
BIOL 102
BIOL 131
CHEM 102
CMPL 201
DANC 101
DANC 112
DANC 212 reserved for new students)
Visual Concepts (9 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2 sections)
Intro History of Art (10 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2 sections)
The Figure (ART 161)
Relief Printmaking (ART 161)
Digital Video/Interactive Art (ART 161)
Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (ART 201)
Iconoclasm (ART 201)
Representation and After (ART 201)
Topics in Biology II (BIOL 101)
Intro to Computational Biology (BIOL 101)
Chemical Reactivity (CHEM 101)
Intro to Comparative Literature
Dance Technique (variable topics)
Intro Dance: Studio II (6 spaces are reserved for new students in both the 1 credit and the 0.5 credit sections)
Contemporary Dance II (Previous dance training
MUS 101**
MUS 104**
MUS 105**
MUS 107**
MUS 108**
MUS 109** computer science or equivalent, and MATH 111.
See catalog for details.)
Private Instruction
Reed Orchestra (audition required)
Reed Chorus
Collegium Musicum (audition required)
Jazz Ensemble (audition required)
Chamber Music (audition required)
** To qualify for .5 unit credit, students must be enrolled in a one-unit music course numbered 111 or above.
MUS 142
MUS 211
MUS 222
MUS 280
MUS 305
PHIL 202
PHIL 203
PHIL 204
Latin American Popular Music
Theory II (MUS 111)
Music History II
American Folk Music of Twentieth Century
Musical Ethnography (cross-listed as ANTH 305)
Intro to Metaphysics (8 spaces are reserved for new students)
Intro to Ethics (8 spaces are reserved for new
DANC 232
DANC 362
ECON 201
ECON 312
ECON 314
ECON 342
ECON 354
ECON 358
ECON 371
ECON 382
ECON 383
HIST 221
HIST 256
LING 323
LITG 334
LITG 349
LITR 404
LITR 413
MATH 112
MATH 113
MATH 121
MATH 141
MATH 241 recommended) (8 spaces are reserved for new students)
Community Dance and Collective Creation (8 spaces are reserved for new students)
Dance Ethnography (Dance 201)
Intro Economic Analysis (12 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 3 sections)
Theory & Practice of Econometrics (ECON 201
& MATH 141)
Macroeconomic Theory (ECON 201 & MATH
111 or equivalent)
International Macroeconomics (ECON 201)
Economics of Science & Technology (ECON
201)
Urban Economics (ECON 201)
Law and Economics (ECON 201)
Economics of Development (ECON 201)
International Trade (ECON 201)
From Treaty Ports to Megacities: Chinese Urban
History
Migration Histories in the British Imperial World
Intro Syntax
German Landscapes: New World Horizons
(cross-listed GER 334)
Literature and Cosmology (cross-listed GER 349)
Tolstoy’s Great Novels (cross-listed RUSS 404)
Russian Formalism, Structuralism, and Semiotics
(cross-listed as RUSS 413)
Intro Analysis (MATH 111)
Discrete Structures
Computer Science Fundamentals I (21 spaces are reserved for new students)
Intro Probability & Statistics
Case Studies: Statistical Analysis (Course in
Sociology, Economics, or Political Science, and course in statistics. See catalog for details. Crosslisted as POL 341)
PHYS 102
POL 220
POL 338
POL 341
POL 343
POL 372
POL 381
POL 398
PSY 122
PSY 217
PSY 348
REL 115
REL 132
REL 321
THEA 160
THEA 161
THEA 162
THEA 163
THEA 245
THEA 250
THEA 310
THEA 321
THEA 323 students)
Intro to Epistemology (8 spaces are reserved for new students)
General Physics II (PHYS 101 & MATH 111)
Intro Comparative Politics (8 spaces are reserved for new students in each of 2 sections)
Environmental Politics and Policy (Introductory
Political Science course)
Case Studies in Statistical Analysis (Course in
Sociology, Economics, or Political Science, and course in statistics. See catalog for details. Crosslisted as MATH 241)
Torture in Wars (Introductory Political Science course)
International Environmental Politics (POL 240)
Constitutional Law and Judicial Politics (POL
230 or 260)
What is Political Freedom? (POL 230)
Intro to Psychology II
Neuroscience of Consciousness
Research Design & Data Analysis
Religion and Philosophy in Preimperial China
(10 spaces are reserved for new students)
Introduction to South Asian Buddhism (10 spaces are reserved for new students)
Islamic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries (REL 121)
Applied Collaboration Techniques (Instructor consent required)
Applied Performance Techniques (Instructor consent required)
Applied Theatre Production
Applied Theatre Design (Instructor permission required)
Performance and Activism in South Africa
Theatre History I
Techniques of Acting (THEA 210)
Advanced Design Studio (THEA 202)
Puppetry & Performing Object (THEA 202 or
THEA 210)